This document provides guidance for schools developing partnerships with community mental health providers.

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(b) A written school district policy which supports comprehensive alcohol and other drug abuse programming including pupil assistance programs, curriculum, instruction, staff development and youth oriented activities. The policies shall be widely publicized and be in accordance with appropriate state and federal laws.

(c) Programs for pupils including pupil assistance programs, peer programs, student clubs, and drug free alternatives.

(d) Programs for adults including staff development, employee assistance and wellness programs, and parent and community education.

(e) Integration of community resources and support services including, but not limited to, human services providers, private treatment providers, law enforcement officers, and judicial personnel.

(f) Access to a collaborative pupil service team made up of school counselors, social workers, nurses and psychologists.

(g) An AODA program coordinator who is provided with appropriate time and training.

(h) Ongoing monitoring, assessment and evaluation of AODA program activities.

(i) Strategies to develop comprehensive school health programs which include, but are not limited to, a police-school partnership project, a family support project providing parenting skills and family cohesion building strategies, after school and summer school tutorial services, student assistance programs, youth-led prevention activities, any other strategy approved by the state superintendent to meet the statutory objectives of prevention or amelioration of alcohol and drug use by minors. A school district may enter into contracts with public or private non-profit agencies to collaborate on family support programs that include parenting skills and family cohesion building strategies.

(i) Strategies to develop comprehensive school health programs which include, but are not limited to, a police-school partnership project, a family support project providing parenting skills and family cohesion building strategies, after school and summer school tutorial services, student assistance programs, youth-led prevention activities, any other strategy approved by the state superintendent to meet the statutory objectives of prevention or amelioration of alcohol and drug use by minors. A school district may enter into contracts with public or private non-profit agencies to collaborate on family support programs that include parenting skills and family cohesion building strategies.

(1) Legal entity. There is created within the school district operating under this chapter a superintendent of schools opportunity schools and partnership program under the management and control of the superintendent of schools.

(2) Duties. The superintendent of schools may establish an opportunity schools and partnership program under this section. If the superintendent of schools proceeds under this section, the superintendent of schools, the entities selected to operate and manage schools transferred to the program under this section, and each school transferred to the program under this section shall be subject to ss. 118.016, 118.13, 118.30 (1m), and 118.38, other than s. 118.38 (1) (a) 9., and to subch. V of ch. 115 and federal law applicable to children with disabilities. If the superintendent of schools proceeds under this section, the superintendent of schools shall do all of the following:

• (a) Policies for identifying eligible schools to be transferred to the opportunity schools and partnership program; partnership initiatives.
• 1. Establish policies for providing a qualitative analysis of each eligible school, identified in the annual report submitted by the state superintendent under s. 115.28 (10m) (a), to determine whether the school is suitable for transfer to the program under this section. The superintendent of schools may use the policies established by the commissioner under s. 119.9002 (1) (a) to select eligible schools to be transferred to the program under this section and may use the request-for-proposal process developed by the commissioner under s. 119.9002 (2) (b) for soliciting proposals from individuals, groups, persons, and governing bodies of private schools to operate and manage the eligible school upon transfer of the school to the program under this section. If the superintendent of schools does not use the policies established by the commissioner, the superintendent of schools shall include as a criterion in his or her policies the level of interest within the school and the school’s community in transferring the school to the program, as determined from community engagement, and shall establish a method for evaluating community engagement.
• 2. Develop and manage partnership programs to more efficiently and effectively deploy wraparound services to residents of the county.
• (b) Selection of schools for transfer to the opportunity schools and partnership program and limit on the number of schools transferred in any one school year.
• 1.a. During the 2015-16 school year, but after the commissioner has completed his or her selection under s. 119.9002 (2) (a), select from the report submitted by the state superintendent under s. 115.28 (10m) (a) at least one and not more than 3 eligible schools to be transferred to the program under this section for the following school year.
• b. During the 2016-17 school year, but after the commissioner has completed his or her selection under s. 119.9002 (2) (a), select from the report submitted by the state superintendent under s. 115.28 (10m) (a) not more than 3 additional eligible schools to be transferred to the program under this section for the following school year.

(1) Legal entity.

• (a) There is created within the school district operating under this chapter a opportunity schools and partnership program under the management and control of the commissioner. The commissioner shall exercise the powers, duties, and functions prescribed to the commissioner by law independently of the board and under the supervision of the county executive. Budgeting, program coordination, and related management functions for the schools transferred to the opportunity schools and partnership program shall be performed by the commissioner.
• (b) The opportunity schools and partnership program comprises individual eligible schools transferred by the commissioner under s. 119.9002 (2).

(2) Exit from opportunity schools and partnership program. Subject to sub. (3) (a), the commissioner may transfer a school out of the opportunity schools and partnership program if the commissioner determines that the school has been placed in a performance category of “meets expectations” or higher on the 3 preceding consecutive accountability reports published for the school under s. 115.385 (1). Any of the following may apply to a school transferred out of the program under this subsection:

• (a) Subject to sub. (3) (b), the commissioner may return operation and general management of the school to the board.
• (b) The commissioner may transfer operation and management of the school to a person to operate the school under s. 118.40 as a charter school that is not an instrumentality of the school district, as determined under s. 118.40 (7).
• (c) The commissioner may transfer operation and general management of the school to the governing body of a private school.

(3) Opportunity schools and partnership program; limitations.

• (a) A school transferred to the program under this subchapter may not be transferred out of the program under this subchapter for 5 consecutive school years.
• (b) The commissioner may not return operation and general management of a school that has been transferred to the opportunity schools and partnership program to the board if either of the following applies:
• 1. The school remains an eligible school.
• 2. The school district operating under this chapter has been assigned in the 3 most recent school years a performance category of “fails to meet expectations” on the accountability report published under s. 115.385 (1).